Road construction has often been viewed as the precursor to deforestation, especially in tropical forests. Traditional … aspects of the literature. First, it provides the most recent and reliable estimates of the drivers of deforestation in the …

Road construction has often been viewed as the precursor to deforestation, especially in tropical forests. Traditional … aspects of the literature. First, it provides the most recent and reliable estimates of the drivers of deforestation in the …

households in 33 villages was carried out in the East Province of Cameroon. This survey focused on land-use changes since the …. The research results demonstrate that macroeconomic changes affecting Cameroon have played a fundamental role in the way … land-use practices influence the forest cover. The results show that the annual rate of deforestation increased after the …

from Cameroon in calendar year 2000, and then used to simulate the effects of institutional and technical change on farmer … welfare and deforestation rates. Our findings can be summarized in three points. First, improved tenure security over cocoa … fields increases farmers' consumption and welfare, but at the expense of more deforestation. Second, the introduction of new …

Road construction has often been viewed as the precursor to deforestation, especially in tropical forests. Traditional … aspects of the literature. First, it provides the most recent and reliable estimates of the drivers of deforestation in the …